Husband and wife filmmaking team Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier have started a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to self-fund the UK cinema release this summer of their documentary THE MOO MAN, a surprise hit at film festivals including this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Utah and London. The Moo Man will also be playing at the Sheffield Doc/Fest on 12, 15 and 16 June.
The hip hop history documentary film “I WANT MY NAME BACK” starring Master Gee & Wonder Mike of The Sugarhill Gang, the rap group behind the mega-hit “Rapper’s Delight,” will be released on DVD and digital platforms on June 11, 2013.
MUSICWOOD, a feature documentary including special performances and interviews with Yo La Tengo, Steve Earle, The Antlers, Kaki King and Lambchop, will screen at music festivals across the US in advance of the film’s theatrical release. The tour kicks off at Bonnaroo on June 15 before travelling to Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival and Newport Folk Festival, with additional dates to be added. MUSICWOOD opens in Portland, Oregon on August 9 and Juneau, Alaska on August 23.
New poster was released today for the serial killer movie MANIAC starring Elijah Wood and directed by Franck Khalfoun. Just like the poster shows, the film is about a serial killer with a fetish for scalps on the loose.
New York filmmaker Sarah Friedland took a trip across the Hudson to make a documentary about the Branch Brook Park Roller Rink, located in Newark, New Jersey, one of the few remaining urban rinks of its kind. Now, one might think how interesting can a documentary about a roller rink be, but Sarah digs way deep, and after almost five years of hard work, she emerged with “RINK” a film thats tells more than a story about a roller rink, but a space transformed and its symbolic representation to those who use it. In the documentary “RINK,” two main characters emerge: Bonesaw, a tough talking, tattooed member of the Garden State Roller Derby Team; and Graylen, a deeply spiritual, Gospel Night skater. On the surface these two characters are different, both ideologically and in their social and racial backgrounds. However, the film reveals a shared past of violence and drug abuse from which the rink provides a much needed refuge.
Sundance Selects will release Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski’s VENUS IN FUR in the US. With a screenplay by Polanski and David Ives, based on the critically acclaimed, Tony award winning stage play by Ives, the film stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric. The film made its world premiere in Competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Sundance Selects did not announce an official release date, but the film is expected to be released later this year.
The documentary DESERT RUNNERS will have its world premiere at the 2013 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Jennifer Steinman (Motherland), Desert Runners follows a diverse cast of non-professional runners as they attempt to complete the four most difficult ultramarathon races on Earth.
The independent film “COPPERHEAD” billed as the ‘great untold Civil War story’ will open nationwide in select cities on June 28, 2013.
Director Dan Eberle returns to the Brooklyn Film Festival for a second time, this time around with his new film “CUT TO BLACK” in which he again plays multiple roles – actor, director, writer, and producer. Eberle, who also lives in Brooklyn, New York was featured in the 2008 festival with his film, the critically acclaimed action thriller “THE LOCAL.” In his latest film CUT TO BLACK which is shot in lavish black and white tones, and set against stark, gritty urban modernity, Eberle, plays Bill Ivers, a disgraced ex-cop, hired by a wealthy former friend to rid his estranged daughter Jessica of a stalker. We caught up with the super talented Eberle at the Brooklyn Film Festival to talk about CUT TO BLACK.
The L.E.S* Film Festival is partnering with ZipCar to kick off its first festival weekend with a FREE old fashioned Block Party & Drive-In. Food, film and surprise performances. The 3rd annual L.E.S* Film Festival will run June 13th – 23rd, 2013.
A WIFE ALONE, “a neo-noir thriller about an ill-fated marriage in the suburbs of upstate New York,” directed by Justin Reichman is having its World Premiere on Thursday June 6, at the 2013 Brooklyn Film Festival, in Brooklyn, New York City. We had the opportunity to catch up with the director, to talk about how he got into filmmaking , his new film A WIFE ALONE and all about taking the ‘plunge.’ Justin Reichman should know a lot about taking the plunge, after all, he left a pretty stable job as a lab tech at an AIDS research facility on 21st street in New York City to pursue his dream. Now he’s back in New York, years later, to premiere his first major film.
PETUNIA, a new comedy film written and directed by Ash Christian (Fat Girls, Mangus!) and starring Oscar and Emmy award-winner Christine Lahti (Chicago Hope, Running on Empty), Golden Globe nominee Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), and Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), opens in NYC on June 28 at Cinema Village. PETUNIA is described as a film about a dysfunctional family unit on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is the story of how they pick up the pieces.